My dear Christabel

The elder sister may be a good modification and pray do you – or FMP invent a love story to work in.

No Robber appears so do pray write him, also Geo III and the beggar. I have done a White Ship. There ought I fancy to be about 30, and I have 28 in my eye or written out ie if I take two Whittingtons.

What do you think of the baby Pretender ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Thank you for your kind letter, I do see great advantages in the plan - but I confess I think it not possible to have such a book well and originally illustrated at such a price in any other way.

The doubt in my mind is whether the book would not - (to fulfil its purpose) have to be too common place in its facts to be on a level with the [[other:68]E. ... continue reading

Dear Miss Walker I should like much to know your Grandmother’s name, in case I should have heard of her from my mother. The curious thing is that my mother had no idea that she was a success. She was very miserable at school, being really too delicate for the treatment of those days and never well in London. She thought her lessons were always marked ‘très mediocre’, and her comfort was watching ... continue reading